Music Reviews
Love You More - JLS - Single
The fact that JLS were chosen to do the Children In Need Song for 2010 shows how popular they have become. I think it was a lovely type of ballad that they did and another example that they have more than one string to their bow. It’s also easy …
Green Day - Last Night On Earth (Song)
Last Night On Earth is a song by Green Day which appears on their album 21st Century Breakdown. Something I’m going to say about this track is that it’s the most melodic piece of music that I’ve ever heard Green Day do and I think that they just sound …
Nine Inch Nails - All The Love In The World (Song)
All The Love In The World is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album With Teeth. The song starts out with some electronic drums playing in a rhythm which stays throughout the majority of the song. Reznor joins in with the vocals pretty quickly on …
Twilight the Soundtrack
I must say that Twilight the Soundtrack is quite the rave for me nowadays. The songs featured inside are all quite catchy and you have nice beats, fast ones, kind of melodramatic tunes and sometimes kind of rock sounding. Including in the rock tunes and other beats would …
Ladyhawke, Ladyhawke (Debut Album)
I was first introduced to Ladyhawke after hearing Paris is Burning on some cable music channel. I wasn’t immediately impressed. I thought the chorus it sounded quite fresh yet catchy (a difficult combination), but equally was put off by the almost rap-esque verse.
My next exposure to Ladyhawke was seeing …
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (Side I)
Overview - Side I of The Fragile, Nine Inch Nail’s third full length record, contains some of the best aggressive work and also some of the best melodic work they’ve ever put out through their entire career. Right from the opening track Reznor sounds excellent vocally and shows he …
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Overview —“ Machine Head, the sixth album released by Deep Purple, is the album that I would have to say is my favorite out of Deep Purple’s entire career. The album gains most of it’s recognition for being the album which has Smoke On The Water, a song which …
The Toadies - Possum Kingdom (song)
“Possum Kingdom” is probably the most famous of songs released by the Dallas Fort Worth band The Toadies. It single handedly propelled them into fame during the mid 90’s and played it’s part in making the album it appeared off of - “Rubberneck” attain platinum status. “Possum Kingdom” is …
Fearless by Taylor Swift
This young crooner, Taylor Swift is no ordinary singer. My sister has Fearless by Taylor Swift sitting proudly on her album shelf and she listens to it regularly. At first I thought it is just another Britney wannabe and I thought low of the quality of the songs …
The Velvet Underground - Temptation Inside Your Heart (Song)
Temptation Inside Your Heart is a song by The Velvet Underground which appears on their album VU. One thing which should be noted about VU is that the album is not a typical or traditional studio album, it’s an album which is full of outtakes. I choose to point …
Taylor Swift’s song, “You belong with me”
Taylor Swift’s song called, “You belong with me” is an extremely touching song that most teenagers can relate to.
It is about two neighbors, one being a boy and the other a girl. The boy is pretty popular; he is on the football team. The girl is kind …
Critical: Jonas Brothers Song
The song Critical by the Jonas Brothers, which is found on their new Jonas L.A. album, is a really amazing song. The lyrics of the song are pretty simple, yet cute and touching at the same time. The song mainly features the vocals of singer Nick Jonas, the youngest …
The Flaming Lips - The Gash (Song)
The Gash is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their record The Soft Bulletin. Opening up with a very epic sounding introduction comprised of interesting instrumentation and a powerful vocal section from Coyne, The Gash soon transitions into a piano-led section before the drums come in …
Highway to hell by Ac/dc
Highway to hell by Ac/dc is a song both of my friends like and so far I can see why. I’ve heard this song like a hundred times cause it’s a classic and that is all my two friends are into which is classic rock. This song has an …
Country Music Singer Faith Hill
Faith Hill, beautiful wife of Tim Mcgraw and loving mother is also an amazing singer with a beautiful voice. She is gifted in more ways that any person has a right to be and she has what appears to be a lifelong marriage to her husband who is also …
Tesla-Cummin’ Atcha Live(song)
.Off the Mechanical Resonance album by Tesla is the song Cummin Atcha Live. This song starts out with an awesome guitar dual as the intro with tons of solo licks some tapping stuff and feedback. Then it goes into the actually song which is pretty basic power chords but …
Randy Crawford (musician)
I first loved Randy Crawford way back 1982, when I was 12 years old, upon hearing “People Alone.” Her voice was so sweet and soothing, and everyone among my 12-year old crowd loved her. “One Hello” was also a …
System of a Down The Hypnotize Album
Hypnotize and Mesmerize are both part of a double record sort of thing. When you buy both records you can combine the two boxes together for one whole double album. Hypnotize is the album that got me into this band, and is my favorite album out of all of …
Welcome to the Black Parade: My Chemical Romance
Welcome to the Black Parade is the latest album from the Emo band My Chemical Romance (2006). After hearing the single, before the album hit the shelves, I was apprehensive about the album. The single has a completely different feel and sound from My Chemical Romance�s previous …
Whips And Chains by David Allan Coe
Whips and Chains by David Allan Coe is a weird song. It is probably my least favorite song that he does. It just goes to show that you can write a song about almost anything though. I don’t think this one made it very big because I had never …
The Flaming Lips - Godzilla Flick (Song)
Godzilla Flick is a song by the Flaming Lips which appears on their album Hear It Is. Opening up with an acoustic guitar pattern, the vocals to the track come in pretty quickly and although I can hear hints of Coyne’s typical tone, it seems as if I’m listening …
Animal Collective - Grass (Song)
Grass is a song by Animal Collective and is the second track on their album Feels. Opening up with an energetic guitar part similar to that which opened up Did You See The Words, Animal Collective waste absolutely no time in establishing a definitive rhythm and an excellent mood …
“Snake” (2003): R. Kelly
R. Kelly
“Snake”
Chocolate Factory
Jive Records
I guess the ghetto-ness of songs like “Ignition (Remix)” and “Feeling On Yo’ Booty” were beginning to run dry for R. Kelly so now he’s decided to depart from his ghetto ways and do something out of the ordinary, taking a page from Mystikal’s “Danger” video …
Metallica - Hit The Lights (Song)
Overview —“ Hit The Lights, the opening track of Metallica’s first record: Kill —˜Em All, is the song which made it on Metal Massacre and really what got Metallica noticed and truly recognized. If this song didn’t end up on Metal Massacre then I’m really not sure if Metallica …
Alyssa Lies by Jason Michael Carroll
This is actually a very sad song, but it’s real and it speaks something that no one wants to speak about, something that people try to pretend doesn’t exist. But cruelty does exist in this world and it happens all the time. This song is about a girl who …
3 Inches Of Blood Advance And Vanquish
This is the second album by the Canadian metal band 3 Inches Of Blood and the first on Roadrunner Records it was released in September of 2004 and produced by Neil Kernon. The style of the band could be compared to Iron Maiden, Mercyful Fate, and other classic metal …
Sublime - Rivers Of Babylon (Song)
Rivers Of Babylon is a song by Sublime and the penultimate track on their album 40 Oz. To Freedom. Opening up with an acoustic guitar pattern, I get the impression that Rivers Of Babylon is basically like a more enjoyable version of the previous track, Krs-One. Like the preceding …
Our Bright Future
For Tracy Chapman, the change could mean as something very mean, 22 years have passed since the debut self-titled album, Tracy remained in the same line, color music that was barely changed, and still the same observation details, about the shape of human life, one thing is becoming scarcer, …
The Rolling Stones - Heart Of Stone (Song)
Heart Of Stone is a track by The Rolling Stones which appears on the album Out Of Our Heads. Right from the opening introduction of this track the rhythm is pretty much set up and you can tell right away that this track is going to be some type …
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains (song)
“Beneath the Remains” by Sepultura happens to be the opening track for the suitibly named album “Beneath The Remains”. This album was released in 1989 and is hailed by many a staple in thrash metal history. “Beneath The Remains” being the first song of the album, sets the pace …
Opeth Ghost Reveries CD
Literally shocking the Death Metal scene, in 2005 Opeth signed to American Metal label Roadrunner and released “Ghost Reveries”, a masterpiece that transcends all of their previous albums.
Many were reluctant about Opeth leaving European label Koch and signing to an American “mainstream” label, stating that the band had sold …
Akira Yamaoka - Confinement (song)
“Confinement” is a track off of the Silent Hill 4 Original Soundtrack. The soundtrack was released alongside the game in 2004, and was made by Akira Yamaoka. Yamaoka has always been hailed a musical genius when it comes to making ambient and creepy music/sound effects. As Yamaoka started to …
Metallica - S&M
Overview - S&M, a collaboration between Metallica and The San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Kamen, is a unique and creative mix of Metallica songs being accompanied by an orchestra. Metallica songs on their own carry an extreme amount of energy and intensity to them, and if you were …
Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are - Single
Bruno Mars, Just The Way You Are. I saw it was number 1 in the UK but I had no idea who he was or what the song was. Funnily enough though as soon as I found this online I did k ow and realised straight away why it …
Animal Collective - Daily Routine (Song)
Daily Routine is a song by Animal Collective and the fifth track on their record Merriweather Post Pavilion. Opening up with an introduction that starts off gradual and then builds incredibly abruptly, the vocals violently enter the track with a melody which surprisingly doesn’t flow very well at all …
Clay Walker: Live, Laugh, Love CD
I actually won Clay Walker: Live, Laugh, Love CD from a local radio station. I wasn’t even sure I knew who Walker was. Of course, I found out soon enough that he was a country music singer.
The first thing I noticed that the liner jacket is on …
Animal Collective - The Living Toys (Song)
The Living Toys is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their second release, Danse Manatee. Opening up instrumentally, vocals do not join the mix until around the two minute mark which allows the band to establish a fairly melodic atmosphere which is one of the first times …
Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne is quite simply my music Messiah, the God of all things metal, the Prince Of Darkness! I have seen him live in concert on July 6th in what was truly the most amazing night of my life, seeing my hero and God LIVE why I was only …
Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams
This is my favorite Bryan Adams song. This is a rock song with energetic tunes, energetic steps, friendly lyrics. “Those were the best days of my life” punch line like this makes you feel nostalgic. Adams has sung this song in his typical unorthodox voice which some how suits …
Needle and Thread - The Reign of Kindo
One genre of music that I feel is hugely underrated and underdeveloped is jazz/rock. It seems that rarely will I find a good jazz/rock combination band, despite the fact that the two styles of music compliment each other so well. The Reign of Kindo is a band that stands …
The Grateful Dead - Unbroken Chain (Song)
Unbroken Chain is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their album Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel. The song starts off in an incredibly melodic fashion which includes an acoustic guitar, a piano, and a very melodic bass line as well. Phil Lesh takes lead vocals …
Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague
Evisceration Plague is the band’s 11th full length album, released on February 3 of 2009, the album features producer Erik Rutan and was released on Metal Blade Records. The overall feel of the album if extremely heavy, if you know the band very well you will know they usually …
Slayer - Aggressive Perfector (Song)
Aggressive Perfector is a song by Slayer which appears on their EP Haunting The Chapel. Initially this track wasn’t included on the original EP but it does appear on the re-issue of the EP as a bonus track. The track starts off with a sustained guitar riff and a …
Metallica - Rebel Of Babylon (Song)
Rebel Of Babylon is a song by Metallica and is the fourth and final unreleased song from the Death Magnetic sessions recently debuted at the Fillmore in San Francisco, California. Opening up with a clean guitar part that Hetfield sings over, I’m slightly reminded of a modern version of …
Baby 81 2007 Album by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Well, I think that this album is good, but not as good as other BRMC albums, like their first record, “Take Them On, On Your Own”, and, of course, “Howl”, the latter, from my point of view, being their very best album.
To appreciate and assess this album (Baby 81), …
Animal Collective - Also Frightened (Song)
Also Frightened is a song by Animal Collective and is the third song to appear on their album Merriweather Post Pavilion. Opening up with a brief instrumental section, a chorus of voices soon join in the mix to create a very full vocal sound that certainly helps lead the …
Days (song) by The Kinks
Days is one of The Kinks’ most well known and well loved songs. Like most of the band’s most successful hits, it was written by Ray Davies, who later went on to have quite a prolific career as a solo artist. Days came out in 1968, and did fairly …
Bad Romance Music Video By Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga is considered to be very weird by many. Her strange taste in clothing and makeup rub some people the wrong way. A lot of people think that she is trying to be something that she is not simply so that she can sell more records and more …
The band Killswitch Engage
The band Killswitch Engage is an awesome band! I love the hardcore beats these guys play. They are one of the best metal bands out there. They hail from Western MA and are freaking awesome.
I love their songs and the best song that they have out is their song …
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